Examining the Palestinian Humanitarian Crisis and the Role of International Justice
Israeli military troops reportedly attacked hundreds of residents of Gaza, Palestine, Thursday (29/2/2024). At least 112 people were reported killed in the attack. The victims were civilians who were queuing and gathering to wait for food aid in northern Gaza. This incident again increased the number of civilian and child casualties.
Responding to this critical condition, The Undergraduate Study Program in Law Faculty of Law (FH) Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) took the initiative to hold a Public Lecture with the theme “The Role of International Justice for the State of Palestine”. FH UII invited a native Palestinian, Fatma Al Ghussain as Executive Director of the Amna Care Fund, a humanitarian organization that distributes aid to the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Territory, as a speaker at a Public Lecture held on Monday (4/3) at 13.00 IWT at Audiovisual Room, 4th Floor, Faculty of Law Building Universitas Islam Indonesia.
in her presentation, Fatma stated that Israel has colonized Palestine since 1948 until today. Currently Gaza is in the process of a total siege. “There is no electricity, no water, no food, no medicine, no hospitals, no schools, because they burned down more than 350 schools and 80 hospitals,” he said at the start of the lecture. “This is not a religious conflict, this is very clearly genocide. Israel wants to destroy and eliminate the Palestinian people by any means. “You can even see them destroying churches and killing our brothers who embrace Christianity,” said Fatma.
This event then continued with a discussion and question and answer session moderated by the Undergraduate Study Program in Law Faculty of Law Universitas Islam Indonesia, Dodik Setiawan Nur Heriyanto, S.H., M.H., LL.M., Ph.D. “The UN Security Council is the highest institution to make a decision whether this conflict can be ended or not, but one of the UN Security Councils, namely the United States, always uses its veto so that a resolution against Palestine and Israel is impossible,” he explained in answer to one of the students’ questions. Many countries hold a lot of evidence of crimes committed by Israel, one of which is Indonesia. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia then fought for Palestinian independence by providing an Advisory Opinion to the International Court of Justice. “As we know, Palestine has become one of the participants in the Ratification of the International Criminal Court, so that is an important asset for them to take this case to a more serious stage,” said the International Law Lecturer at Faculty of
